The National Book Foundation released longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards last week. Finalists will be announced October 7, and winners named November 19 at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted fiction titles are:
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press)
Flashlight by Susan Choi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (Mariner)
The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Knopf)
Only Son by Kevin Moffett (McSweeney's)
The Antidote by Karen Russell (Knopf)
North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object/Deep Vellum Publishing)
Palaver by Bryan Washington (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Pelican Child by Joy Williams (Knopf)
